Contributors
Heather Ramsay(reporter) is an award-winning community reporter, photographer and creative writer who lives in Queen Charlotte City. She is deeply intrigued by lives and landscapes—past, present and future—swirling around British Columbia’s Northwest.
Russell Bowers lives and works in Prince Rupert. You can catch him mornings on CBC Radio’s Daybreak. His carbon footprint is size 11.
Paul Glover came to northwest BC in 1975 to visit friends and never left. He has flying dreams, at times feeds the birds more than himself, and is working on his imitation of the call of the yellow-rumped warbler.
Sarah Artis, a greedily curious freelance writer, moved north to Terrace in 2006 to escape city fashion and chaos. She is the recent winner of a CIDA award that sent her to Rwanda and Mozambique in February 08 to report on development issues.
Tracy Morton is a family physician on Haida Gwaii. His philosophy of care is to equip people with the best available information to make health decisions that are right for them. Besides medicine, his interests include kayaking, climbing, cooking, travel, yoga and hanging out with his family.
John Kelson is a Smithers-based conservation biologist. He designs and builds canopy walkways around the world. When not stoking the woodstove he might be found paragliding above, or skiing down, our local mountains. He loves eulachons.
Hans Saefkow is an award-winning editorial cartoonist, illustrator and set designer. If you see this man, do not approach him, feed him, or listen to his idle chatter. It is simply best not to encourage him.
Julie Chaplin is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. Born and raised in Ontario, she now resides in northern BC with her new family. With her pure love for life, you can find Julie painting, drawing, meditating and enjoying the great outdoors.
Rob Sturney has lived in New Hazelton since 1981 and has taught at Hazelton High since 1994. He is fanatical about cycling, coffee and travel, especially if he can enjoy them all simultaneously.
Tricia Kapelari, a full-time mother of three and part-time writer, also manages finances at environmental NGO One Sky. You’ll find her roaming the sunny streets of Telkwa with her camera and regal pup, King, in search of community initiatives.
Facundo Gastiazoro is a freelance designer who focuses on logos, posters, layout and illustrations. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Facundo is currently living in Smithers. His illustrations appear in every issue of Northword Magazine.
Charlynn Toews has been in printing and publishing since 1985. She has published in daily and weekly newspapers, national magazines, and loves a good regional. She writes a regular column for Northword from her home in Terrace.
Gord Wadley has lived in the Skeena and Bulkley Valleys for 50 years. A fishing guide and fisheries/environmental consultant with three children, he loves the outdoors and anything that gets him out there.
Ted Widen, a born-and-raised BC northerner, recently made a move to the Netherlands but still calls the Bulkley Valley home. A high school teacher for 15 years, and always an outdoors person, his leisure pursuits of photography and writing have now become a significant part of his life.
Sheila Peters, one of the founding members of the Driftwood Foundation, speaks through her writing of the diverse ways landscape affects the people who inhabit it. Her recent book, the weather from the west, is a collection of poems published in collaboration with artist Perry Rath.
Les Watmough, born and raised in Alberta, graduated from formal school in grade 9 and moved on to the school of the outdoors. Now retired from construction and logging, he is still active as a representative on the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District.
Gail Cort, after retiring from competitive rowing (three-time Olympian), lived in New Zealand where she ran a fitness and lifestyle coaching business, coached sports, and raised three sons. She recently moved to Houston BC, where she is enjoying the northern lifestyle, the people, and the SNOW!
Rosamund Pojar is a botanist, bird watcher, and all-round naturalist. After 27 years in Smithers, she spent the past three years exploring the Yukon. She is also a hiker, quilt addict, singer, and a regional coordinator for the Breeding Bird Atlas of BC.
Ruth Lloyd is a musician and professional biologist whose love affair with birds began at age 7 in England. She soon discovered that poking around the countryside was infinitely preferable to getting a regular job, which she has assiduously avoided ever since.
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